freedom Quotes

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other."

"Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison."

"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."

“I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps... ...

“The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of... ...

“If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.”

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure."

"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail."

"Where there is love, there is no imposition."

"The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion."